Wisconsin · Private foundation
Vilter Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $158k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Vilter Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 60 | $158k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $103k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $113k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $126k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $134k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $129k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $119k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $124k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoological Society of Milwaukee Cty | $53,850 | 9 | 0% |
| St Matthew Congregation | $28,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Faith Hope & Love Inc | $25,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $24,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $23,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Jazz Festival Inc | $22,500 | 6 | 9% |
| Wisconsin Humane Society | $22,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc | $21,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $21,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Women's Center Inc | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($409k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vilter Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Baird Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Youth Foundation Inc · Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Gardner Foundation
How this is measured
About Vilter Foundation Inc
- How much does Vilter Foundation Inc give?
- Vilter Foundation Inc reported 60 grants totaling $157,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Vilter Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Animals (12%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Vilter Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Zoological Society of Milwaukee Cty ($54k), St Matthew Congregation ($28k), Faith Hope & Love Inc ($25k).
- Does Vilter Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vilter Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vilter Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Vilter Foundation Inc based?
- Vilter Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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